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Welcome to the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA.

Current Solar Images

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Click for for the latest ground- and space-based solar images in the SDAC archives.

Click for GIF representations of these images via anonymous ftp.

SolarMonitor hosted at the SDAC

[Thumbnail view of ARM latest events page]

solarmonitor.org now features RSS feeds with active region closeups.

Peter Gallagher's SolarMonitor, the Website formerly known as the Active Region Monitor, is hosted at the SDAC, as well as other sites. SolarMonitor offers up-to-date information on solar activity, including images, flare locations, flare predictions, and links to the LMSAL "last events" page, which gives a graphic view of solar and heliospheric activity through soft X-ray, energetic proton, and solar wind data.

Sam Freeland of LMSAL has generated an archive of "latest events" pages from 2002 to the present, at LMSAL.

[Thumbnail view of LMSAL last_events page]

Navigate to Solar Data Online

Try the SDAC DataFinder for quick access to space solar physics data held at the SDAC.

Note that all links to resources with non-NASA IP addresses open in new windows.

SOHO news
2004 December 10

SOHO status

SOHO is in normal mode, and all instruments are observing. The coarse sun pointing attitude anomaly detector has been reenabled.

Why 1 Tbyte/day doesn't scare us

Some people appear to think that the expected Solar Dynamics Observatory downlink rate of 1 Terabyte (Tbyte) = 1000 Gbyte a day is lot of data. Since SDO won't be launched until late 2007 at the earliest, we don't. See why.

TRACE

A catalog of flares observed by TRACE is available online, thanks to the TRACE folks at SAO.
TRACE Analysis Guide available online
- US site
TRACE Data Center
- Try the TRACE Data Center at LMSAL.
TRACE data in the VSO
- TRACE data are also available via the Virtual Solar Observatory.

Twin comets race to fiery death!

....or words to that effect: see two Kreutz sungrazers barrel toward the LASCO occulting disks, and then watch the CME's and a spectacular eruptive prominence. Check out the:

SOHO sungrazers page.

SOHO EIT eruptive prominence of the week

{Esthetically pleasing 30.4 nm image of the Sun with
an eruptive prominence}

Click on the thumbnail image for a full-size (1024 x 1024) image of the Sun in He II 304 Å showing a large, eruptive prominence.

Image taken 2006 October 11 at 13:21 UT UT.